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    Italy: Emmanuel Macron’s first meeting with Giorgia Meloni

    The President of the Republic is traveling to Rome, Sunday October 23, for a conference on peace, before meeting Pope Francis. Live on site, we find Anne Bourse.

    The agenda of the President of the Republic is full for this visit to Italy, Sunday, October 23. But will Emmanuel Macron add a first meeting with the new Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni?

    Ukraine: what to remember from Sunday, October 23

    While Moscow accuses kyiv of preparing a “dirty bomb”, Emmanuel Macron still wants to believe that “peace is possible”.

    Ukrainian firefighters try to put out a fire at energy facilities, in the Rivne region (western Ukraine), on October 22, 2022. (VITALIY KOVAL TELEGRAM / AFP)

    As a peace summit was held in Rome on Sunday October 23, the Kremlin accused Ukraine of preparing to use a “dirty bomb”. Allegations rejected by kyiv and Washington who say they fear a pretext for an escalation. Summarizes the information to remember from this day.

    Italy: Emmanuel Macron met Giorgia Meloni in Rome

    Traveling to Rome, Italy, Emmanuel Macron met the new Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Sunday October 23. The journalist Anne Bourse, live from Rome for the 8 Hours of France 2, Monday, takes stock of this interview.

    Emmanuel Macron has been traveling to Rome, Italy, since Sunday October 23. The Head of State, who will be received by the Pope on Monday, met the new Italian Prime Minister

    Eurozapping: Emmanuel Macron meets the Pope, legal scandal in Norway, Spanish museums are worried about their paintings

    Like every day, Evening news takes a tour of the news broadcast by European television channels. It’s Eurozapping on Monday, October 24.Emmanuel Macron met the pope in Rome for the third time and made the front page of Rai. They notably discussed the war in Ukraine and the end of life in France. In Norway, a man has been exonerated after more than twenty years in prison. Accused of the rape and murder of two children, he was cleared by DNA fingerprinting. The Norwegian public prosecutor has apologized.

    Italy: Council President Giorgia Meloni denies any “sympathy” or “closeness” to fascism

    During her general policy speech, the new head of the Italian government tried to reassure Brussels and Rome’s partners.Italy’s new Council President Giorgia Meloni speaks on October 25, 2022, during her maiden speech to Parliament. She is alongside Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani and Infrastructure Minister Matteo Salvini, before a vote of confidence at the Montecitirio palace in Rome. (ANDREAS SOLARO / AFP)

    Giorgia Meloni seeks to shed the “post-fascist” label. The new president of the Italian Council denied Tuesday, October 25, any “proximity” with fascism, during her speech on general

    Energy crisis: turn off the heat while cooking pasta to save money

    The invasion of Ukraine by Russia and its implications for the gas supply of European countries has pushed the States of the Old Continent to seek savings. In Italy, the method of cooking pasta could be a way of sobriety.

    In the context of the meteoric rise in energy prices throughout Europe, all the tips for saving are good. At the heart of discussions in Italy, the “passive” cooking of pasta.

    Italy: Giorgia Meloni shows pledges to the international community

    Giorgia Meloni, new Prime Minister, addressed Italian MPs on Tuesday 25 October during her general policy speech. A speech in which she showed pledges to the international community, as explained by journalist Raphaële Schapira, live from Rome.

    The new Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, addressed MEPs during her general policy speech on Tuesday 25 October. “The far-right leader has shown pledges to the international community. First to NATO, by reaffirming her clear and total support for Ukraine. Then to Europe, with its Ministers of Economy and of Foreign Affairs who are rather pro-European”, explains journalist Raphaële Schapira, live from Rome (Italy).

    Deforestation: an aftertaste of the Amazon on our plate

    The destruction of the Amazon rainforest is accelerating: in 2022, there were more fires in Brazil in 9 months than in all of 2021. The result of Jair Bolsonaro’s policy, but also of our European meat consumption .

    A burned portion of Amazon rainforest in Apui, Brazil, September 21, 2022. (MICHAEL DANTAS / AFP)

    A quarter of the Amazon rainforest is irreversibly destroyed, according to a report presented by indigenous leaders in September 2022. And “planting trees” will not be enough to recreate the richness, complexity and biodiversity of this 55 million-year-old forest years.

    A fragile hope for peace in Ethiopia

    It is one of the deadliest conflicts on the planet: the war in northern Ethiopia in East Africa has been going on for two years. For the first time, direct negotiations are opening in South Africa, between the government and the rebels of Tigray.

    People walk past a damaged military truck in Hayk, Ethiopia, on December 13, 2021. (AMANUEL SILESHI)

    It is a note of hope in a forgotten conflict, almost neglected by the international community, especially since the start of the war in Ukraine. Negotiations, after a false start in early October, finally start on Monday, October 24, in a secret location in South Africa.

    Burkina Faso: Ibrahim Traore, young putschist at the head of the country of honest men

    The new head of the military junta has made it known that he will respect the commitments already made for a rapid return of civilians to power.

    Burkina Faso’s new junta leader Captain Ibrahim Traore attends a meeting in Ouagadougou on October 2, 2022. (AFP)

    Captain Ibrahim Traoré, author of the last coup in Burkina Faso, officially became president of Burkina Faso on Wednesday, October 5, pending the appointment of a transitional president by “National Assizes”.

    Coups in West Africa: “Terrorism has made the democratic agenda secondary”, notes researcher Francis Laloupo

    The international relations teacher analyzes recent democratic setbacks in Burkina Faso, Mali and Guinea. Maintenance.

    A man reads a newspaper on which appears on the front page a photo of Captain Ibrahim Traore, the leader of the military junta which rules Burkina Faso, in Ouagadougou, on October 3, 2022. (OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT / AFP)

    Francis Laloupo is the author of Democratic Blues 1990-2020, published by Karthala editions. The journalist and researcher associated with the Institute of International and Strategic Relations (Iris) analyzes, among other things, “the crisis of democratic transitions in Africa”.

    Ideal framework to fight terrorism in West Africa

    The countries of the Gulf of Guinea are active in the face of the multiplication of jihadist attacks.

    A Togolese soldier, holding a machine gun, stands watch under a tree surrounded by used tires as he monitors procedures at Yemboate, the northern Togo border post with Burkina Faso, February 17, 2020. (PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / AFP)

    Terrorist attacks are on the rise in Benin, a state that is seeking to strengthen its partnerships to deal with them.

    Kherson: Civilians leave bombarded city behind

    Under pressure from Ukrainian troops, pro-Russian leaders have just called for the emergency evacuation of the population. Is it to make way for the Russian army and new battles? kyiv denounces in any case a massive deportation of the Ukrainian population. The team of Luc Lacroix, special correspondent for France Televisions, is on site, in Kherson, exclusively.

    The operation is delicate. Lying on stretchers, these patients are transferred to a boat. It’s the only way to leave the city. Faced with the advancing Ukrainians, the Russians asked the civilians to evacuate Kherson. They leave behind them a city in the grip of bombardments.

    Ukraine: what to remember from Thursday

    EU member countries, as well as the United Kingdom, adopted sanctions on Thursday against Iran, accused of supplying drones to Russia.

    A woman walks in front of a building destroyed by a drone strike, in kyiv (Ukraine), October 17, 2022. (SOPA IMAGES / OLEKSII CHUMACHENKO / SIPA)

    EU member countries adopted sanctions on Thursday (October 20th) against Iran, accused of supplying drones to Russia, used in the conflict.

    Ukraine: Volodymyr Zelensky accuses the Russians of having mined a dam in southern Ukraine

    It is a dam of a hydroelectric power station located in the Kherson region, in southern Ukraine, and under the control of Moscow forces.

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on October 20, 2022, in kyiv (Ukraine). (SERGEI SUPINSKY / AFP)

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday (October 20th) accused the Russians of having mined a dam at a hydroelectric power station located in the Kherson

    Social Security budget: the deputies of the Nupes alliance announce the tabling of a motion of censure after the second 49.3

    Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne again engaged the government’s responsibility on Thursday on the revenue part of the Social Security financing bill by means of article 49.3 of the Constitution.

    LFI leader Mathilde Panot at the National Assembly, in Paris, on October 11, 2022. (XOSE BOUZAS / HANS LUCAS / AFP)

    This live is now over.

    The deputies of the left alliance Nupes tabled a new motion of censure against the government after the triggering, Thursday, October 20, of 49.3 to pass the revenue part of the social security budget without a vote, announced the boss of the LFI group. , Mathilde Panot. “We are going to table a motion of censure again”, like Wednesday after the use of 49.3 also on the state budget, she declared to the press. “Double 49.3 equals double motion of censure”, she launched, surrounded by elected officials from the left.

    Resignation of Liz Truss: who are the possible candidates for the post of British Prime Minister?

    In the United Kingdom, the future head of government will be appointed by October 28, following an internal Conservative Party election.

    Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, at the time respectively British Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, at NATO headquarters in Brussels, March 24, 2022. (EVAN VUCCI / AFP)

    The war of succession is open. After the resignation of the British Prime Minister, Liz Truss, Thursday, October 20, an internal ballot in the conservative party, which must be completed by Friday, October 28, must make it possible to designate the future head of government across the Channel. Here are the possible candidates for the succession of the ephemeral conservative leader.

    Energy crisis: Germany extends the operation of its last three nuclear power plants until April 2023

    Nuclear power currently produces 6% of net electricity production in Germany.

    The Emsland nuclear power plant in northern Germany on January 12, 2022. (INA FASSBENDER / AFP)

    The German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, announced Monday, October 17 to extend the operation of the last three German nuclear power plants, in a context of unprecedented energy crisis.

    War in Ukraine: what to remember from Monday, October 17

    Ukraine has notably called for sanctions from the European Union, after several suicide drone strikes on kyiv on Monday.


    A building is on fire after a Russian military plane crashed on October 17, 2022, in Yeisk (Russia), not far from the border with Ukraine. (HANDOUT/TELEGRAM/PROC_23/AFP)


    Austrians are electing a president

    Austria holds a presidential election on Sunday that is expected to be won by incumbent Alexander Van der Bellen, seen as a beacon of stability as the Alpine country struggles with an energy crisis and high inflation

    Is the armament factory in Tarbes running at full capacity?

    In Tarbes (Hautes-Pyrenees), a company produces ammunition necessary for the operation of CAESAE cannons. The ammunition factory is experiencing real growth. Reportage. The CAESAE is...